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Alex Sloane

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Garnett Station Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2013, Sloane co-founded Garnett Station Partners, a New York-based private equity firm managing over $4 billion across franchise, multi-unit, and consumer services. He previously worked in private equity at Apollo Global Management and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.

10statements → 5claims → 1claims resolved → 4.1/5average certainty → 1.7/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Sloane: GSP Scaled Burger King Franchise to 1,100 Units and $1B+ Exit
“We first invested in a 23 unit Burger King franchisee business that was based in the Garnett Street train station in Henderson, North Carolina. They gave us this shot. We were successful with that business that allowed us to grow. We ultimately got to 1100 fra…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 8:37 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Alex Sloane on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Alex Sloane said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Sloane: PE DPI Slump Creates Succession Logjams and Withholds Carry
“One of the effects of the DPI problem in the broader industry is not just on LPs. It's also on investors, right? And you think about VP, principal, MD, even partner level investors who've been at firms for a while and haven't seen their carry paid out. There a…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 54:52 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Insight
Sloane: A perfect hit rate in roll-ups means under-risking or moving too slowly
“Matt has a saying, if every deal is right in a roll-up, we're either not taking enough risk or not moving fast enough. It's okay to have a bad deal. That's the beauty of the model. You're able to get the most amount of capital into your winners in these consol…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 34:15 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Assertion Supported
Sloane: GSP Scaled Burger King Franchise to 1,100 Units and $1B+ Exit
“We first invested in a 23 unit Burger King franchisee business that was based in the Garnett Street train station in Henderson, North Carolina. They gave us this shot. We were successful with that business that allowed us to grow. We ultimately got to 1100 fra…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 8:37 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Insight
Sloane: Roll-Up Investors Easily Fool Themselves with Add-Backs and Run Rates
“You can really fool yourself with run rates and add back nonsense, particularly in a roll up where you're buying a lot of stuff. At some point you have to figure out what are the cash flows of that business.”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 42:55 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Disclosure
Sloane: Garnett Station Partners Has No AUM Target
“We certainly don't have an AUM goal. That's not the business. Our goal is on the incentive side.”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 59:34 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Insight
Sloane: GSP Treats Every Deal as the Enemy to Prevent Deal Inertia
“Every deal is the enemy is hung a sign in our office just to remind us on the one yard line, never get comfortable, never let inertia take you through a deal, never let Quote, unquote, pattern recognition allow you to invest money. Make sure you're thinking ag…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 1:02:52 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2046
Sloane: Roughly $10T in Assets Will Change Hands Over Two Decades
“What we realized while building value in the Burger King business was that there was a massive opportunity to invest in fragmented markets, high quality businesses behind this baby boomer generational transition, 10 trillion of assets or so set to change hands…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 13:29 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sloane: GSP Lost Zero Portfolio Companies and Avoided Rescue Capital During COVID
“Surviving what was a very challenging period for our portfolio, getting through it, and not losing a company, not needing a dollar of rescue capital, growing equity value across the portfolio, and then Exiting those businesses proved to ourselves and proved to…”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 25:19 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sloane: GSP has built platforms from $1M EBITDA 20 times
“So we start as small as a million of EBITDA, board of directors, management team, a technology stack, and we go out and we'll literally buy one unit at a time. Done that 20 times across the portfolio.”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 27:42 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sloane: GSP auto services platform grew from under $5M to $25M EBITDA
“We have a consolidation in tire and auto services. Business we invested in three years ago when it had less than five million of EBITDA. Today it's twenty-five million of EBITDA.”
Alex Sloane Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 32:38 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)

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Disclosure
Perelman: GSP Co-Founders Share Single Desk, Speakerphone, and All Meetings
“We share a desk. We have one big Polycom speakerphone between us. Take all of our meetings together, all of our calls together, and all of our travels together.”
Matt Perelman Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 9:25 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499) Apr 27, 2026 24m
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